Date: Sat, 29 Dec 2007 20:55:45 +0530 From: Girish Venkatachalam <girishvenkatachalam@gmail.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Photo organizer for FreeBSD? Message-ID: <20071229152545.GB14971@brahma.susmita.org> In-Reply-To: <47765E94.3000500@shopzeus.com> References: <47765E94.3000500@shopzeus.com>
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On 15:49:56 Dec 29, Laszlo Nagy wrote: > > Hi, > > Can you tell me what kind of software should I use for organizing photos? > Here are my requirements: > > - should be able to handle many photos (right now we are using Picasa on > Ubuntu but for 100 000+ photos it is very slow and unstable) > - should be able to save comments/annotations for the photos (I do not like > Picasa because it uses a special database for that. I would like to have > txt files saved in the same directory where the photos are, or something > similar.) You can trivially do this with the convert command. Refer to my article. http://linuxjournal.com/9566 > - should have a full text search feature (search for photos with given > keywords) This can be easily done. I would guess there would be a third party tool to do this. > - should run on Windows and FreeBSD. (Actually, I would like to burn > self-starting DVDs, so a Python or Perl based GUI would be great) I wonder if netpbm or ImageMagick is available in Cygwin or in some other form in Windows. > Well, if there is a web server based solution, that is fine with me, I need > to burn photos to DVDs and be able to use them. > > Can you recommend something from the ports tree? Or should I write my own > program? You can try this web based solution. I have never tried it, but apparently it would do a lot of heavy-lifting for you. http://gallery.menalto.com/ Best, Girish
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